SCIE 1P51 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: World Meteorological Organization, 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference, Kyoto Protocol
10 Dec 2015
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The artic and antarctic regions have borne the brunt of climate (cid:1) change"s impacts: Melting snow and ice have far-reaching effects. Melting of the greenland ice sheet is accelerating. As ice melts, darker , less-reflective surfaces are exposed and absorb more sunlight, causing more melting. An ice-free northwest passage and canada"s arctic sovereignty: Canada re-affirmed its sovereignty over arctic waters in 2008. Arctic subsurface may hold as much as 25% of the world"s undiscovered oil and gas reserves. Greenland"s ice sheet has ~3 million km^3 of ice, its all freshwater. Over the last two decades, the greenland and antarctica on sheet have been living with glaciers have continued to shrink almost worldwide, and arctic use ice and northern hemisphere spring snow cover have continued to decrease. 10% if the earth"s surface is covered by glaciers, ice caps, and ice sheets, mainly in polar regions. Unfccc: united nations framework convention on climate change.
